PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 908, 30 August 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency the Governor has consented to become patron of the Society for. the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The Hon. B. Mifenzie, who has been on a' visit to Wanganui, returned to Wellington i yesterday.' afternoon. . Mr. J. H. Hosking, K.C.. Dunedin,. is at present; pn-ja visit: to..Wellington. Mr. Wm, Barr, of the Public Trust Office, Wellington, is at present in Chri6tchuroh on departmental business. On Saturday evening.the boarders.and household staff o£ the Caledonian .Hotel made presentations to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Firth as marks of esteem on' their leaving. the hotel in which they have disposed of their interests. Mr. James Sole, of New who came out with his brothers by.the Oriental, arriving on November 18, 1841,, celebrated his ninety-second birthday on Sunday. , The old gentleman is still well and hearty, is able to attend to his garden. ■. , •■• , Mr. Keast, chairman of the Tramways Committee of tho Dunedin City Council, and' Mr. C. Alexander, manager of the tramways in'that city, who came to Wellington for the purpose of giving evidence before the Parliamentary Committee on the Tramways' Bill, are still in town. The. scientific journal, "Progress," instituted by Messrs. Baldwin aud Rayward, some five years ago, has t>een purchased by Mr. Harry Tombs, of Whitcorabe and Tombs, who is leaving the latter firm to take up the control of the paper. Mr. A. T. Maginnity has been unanimously re-elected chairman of the Nolson Education Board for the fourth time. —Press Association. The fievs. Canon Ivens, H. E. P. Farrer, C. Dβ Carteret, iand C. T. Horah, members of the Anglican Mission to New Zealand, , will leave for Auckland this morning. Other- missioiiers havts already gone north. On Thursday, September 1, the missioners will go ,to St. John's College, Tamaki, for a quiet day, and on Friday they will be received at thri cathedral, Paraell, at eight p.m. On Saturday the missions will begin in tho parishes. Tho mission will dnd on Mov dav, September 12, and the missioners' will begin their work in the aiocese of Waiapu on Saturday, September 17.